Stenosis. If you are over 50 and experience pangs of or full-on
back pain, stenosis is a recognizable term.
Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre treats many 50+ year olds wanting relief of Toronto back pain and leg pain. And for
good reason: our Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management eases
the back pain and leg pain related to lumbar spinal
stenosis.
TREATMENT OPTIONS FOR LUMBAR SPINAL STENOSIS
Lumbar spine stenosis is a growing
diagnosis in our aging population. A new practice
guideline was just published that provided three
recommendations for treatment of lumbar spine stenosis to relieve
pain, decrease disability, enhance quality of
life, and improve walking ability. First, non-drug options: advice on lifestyle and behavioral changes with exercise, manual
therapy, rehab, acupuncture, post-operative rehab and 12 weeks of cognitive
behavioral therapy if surgery has already been done. Second,
drug therapy may be tried: serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake
inhibitors or tricyclic antidepressants. Number 3, these
pharmacological drug therapies aren’t recommended: non-steroidal
anti-inflammatory drugs, calcitonin,
methylcobalamin, paracetamol, muscle relaxants, opioids, pregabalin, gabapentin, and
epidural steroidal injections. (1) Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre offers the first line
recommended options for Toronto back pain relief: manual therapy, exercise,
advice, etc.
MANUAL THERAPY OPTION SPECIFICALLY: Flexion Distraction Cox® Technic
Manual therapy is proving to be quite
effective in treating lumbar spinal stenosis issues. A new report
shares the effects of manual manipulation in a comprehensive
discussion of Cox® Technic, a manual manipulation treatment used
by 64% of US chiropractic physicians including your own Toronto
chiropractor. This recent study is out of Korea, so Cox®
Technic is being implemented around the globe now! The
authors described that lumbar
spinal stenosis is a degenerative spine disease in which spinal nerves are
compressed as
spinal vertebral bones narrow due to disc degeneration. Spinal stenosis causes
not only back pain but also other issues like intermittent claudication, leg
pain sciatica, and lower extremity weakness. Cox® Technic was used in a
comparison study for care of stenosis. The patients’ visual
analogue scale and Oswestry Disability Index scores were significantly lowered
in the experimental group patients over the control group patients. The authors
described how the flexion distraction technique (aka Cox®
Technic) is intended to restore the normal spinal joint function
and movement by opening the facet joints, reducing
the stresses on the posterior disc, restoring facet joint motion, lowering
the disc pressure, making a larger spinal canal area, increasing
disc height, and thus relaxing compressed nerves. The researchers
further explained that flexion-distraction concentrates
on a specific segment of the spine, affects the epiphyseal joint
allowing a distraction of the anterior and posterior longitudinal ligaments,
and relaxes the facet joint. Negative pressure was produced in
the disc space by widening the canal space. (2) They referenced other studies
that found a 65% decreased pressure
inside the disc (3) and related that not only is back pain relieved
with flexion distraction, but so too is pain and physical function owing to a severely prolapsed disc. (4,5) Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre finds the same. Our
Toronto back pain patients experience relief with Cox®
Technic, too.
CONTACT Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre
Listen to the PODCAST
with Dr. Michael McMurray on the
Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he describes
the effectiveness and gentleness of the
Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management for his lumbar spinal stenosis
patients who didn’t think he would ever find
relief.
Make your next Toronto
chiropractic appointment with Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre. Don’t let the
all-too-common, over-age-50 condition of spinal stenosis slow you down! Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre has the treatment for you!